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Creating a Great Presentation

September 3, 2010

There are lots of good posts out there on how to give a great presentation, but how do you put a good one together? How do you take your audience on a ride with your content even as you are hula-hooping and doing all your other best saleswomany tricks to give it enthusiasm, conviction and [...]

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Making a Killer Portfolio

August 25, 2010

OK, so you’ve got all your amazing projects completed, your client list reads like a who’s who of desirable business and now it’s time to show off all your talent and hard work. Or, more realistically, you’ve got a few gems, a few that need to be in there because they show you can do [...]

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Sell What You Are Already Selling

August 6, 2010

Client calls and says – “So, Yeah – we really want some e-commerce on our site to sell some stuff. I figure we just have to have it, you know, to be up to date. That’s why we want to sell the chotchtkies in the chotchkie store online, cause we’re pretty sure people might buy [...]

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Confidence or Stupidity?

August 4, 2010

I have noticed recently that in certain situations I am presented with someone who is clearly wrong, but has the kind of confidence normally reserved for brain surgeons. Not only do they exhibit extreme confidence regarding an issue they either know nothing about or are coming at from the wrong direction, but they seem predisposed [...]

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Getting the Right Clients

July 28, 2010

Getting the right clients is about as important as it gets when you are talking long term success of an agency, and long term happiness of the people at the agency.
For example, we here at Fastspot don’t believe in putting together excessively long and redundant project documentation during our Discovery phase, chock full of boiler [...]

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Less is Best

July 26, 2010

If you want, you can make the simplest task the most complicated waste of time imaginable with almost a guaranteed outcome of non-completion. Now why on earth would we choose to do this? Well, there are a few reasons we tend to do this, and hopefully by identifying them early, you can avoid them and [...]

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Why RFPs Don’t Work (for the client OR the agency)

July 21, 2010

If you are getting ready to embark on a large Website project, or any project for that matter, you probably have some companies in mind whose work you admire. You also have probably short-listed these companies because they are experts in their field. These companies know more than you do about this process, and you [...]

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Empowering Your Team with “Yes”

July 20, 2010

Who on your team or in your organization has the power to say “yes”? When a final call is needed, a decision must be made, is your organization made up of people or managers who have the ability to say “yes” or are they more likely (and expected) to say “no”? If everyone is saying [...]

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How To Work Towards Achieving Fun

July 12, 2010

In today’s hustle and bustle of fast rising and falling markets, public offerings, venture capital investments and other equations of valuation, we often forget about one of the most important aspects of value in our lives, fun. Walt Disney knew this, Steven Speilberg knows this, every parent preparing for Halloween or a birthday party knows [...]

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Ignore Your Alumni and They Will Go Away

June 22, 2010

I was pretty darn excited when I got a scholarship offer to attend the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA), and even more excited when I made the life changing decision to actually go there versus the safer route of a liberal arts college with a strong studio arts program (my anticipated course of action). Once [...]

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